One cannot review a bad book without showing off. - W. H. Auden

We are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know.

The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish.

Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.